After the financial crisis many consumers are feeling burned by the irresponsible risk taking of major banks like Bank of America (NYSE:BAC). Even if they never had any directly negative experience with the banks, simply hearing about the government money and bailouts that had to be used to prop up ailing institutions has left scorched earth that many banks still need to address, even years after the fact.
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